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2025 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2025 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 21, 2025, and the winners were announced on November 6.
The shortlisted nominees for the 2025 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 21, 2025, and the winners were announced on November 6.
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction | Kyle Edwards, Small Ceremonies | Benjamin Hertwig, Juiceboxers |
| Fawn Parker, Hi, It's Me | ||
| Maria Reva, Endling | ||
| Katherena Vermette, real ones | ||
| Non-fiction | Claire Cameron, How to Survive a Bear Attack | Shane Neilson, What to Feel, How to Feel: Lyric Essays on Neurodivergence and Neurofatherhood |
| Vinh Nguyen, The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse | ||
| Ruby Smith Dίaz, Searching for Serafim: The Life and Legacy of Serafim “Joe” Fortes | ||
| Teresa Wong, All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey | ||
| Poetry | Karen Solie, Wellwater | Farah Ghafooor, Shadow Price |
| Lorna Goodison, Dante’s Inferno: A new translation | ||
| Michael Trussler, 10:10 | ||
| Douglas Walbourne-Gough, Island | ||
| Drama | Tara Beagan, Rise, Red River | Catherine Banks, Downed Hearts |
| Tara Beagan, The Ministry of Grace | ||
| Alisa Palmer and Hannah Moscovitch, Fall on Your Knees | ||
| Anusree Roy, Little Pretty and The Exceptional | ||
| Children's literature | Heather Smith, Tig | Deborah Ellis, The Outsmarters |
| Kenneth Oppel, Best of All Worlds | ||
| Léa Taranto, A Drop in the Ocean | ||
| Richard Van Camp, Beast | ||
| Children's illustration | Tonya Simpson and Delreé Dumont, This Land Is a Lullaby | Guojing, Oasis |
| Sid Sharp, Bog Myrtle | ||
| Kathy Stinson and Brooke Kerrigan, The Rock and the Butterfly | ||
| Tanya Tagaq and Cee Pootoogook, It Bears Repeating | ||
| French to English translation | Jessica Moore, Uiesh/Somewhere (Joséphine Bacon, Uiesh/Quelque part) | Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Farida (Monia Mazigh, Farida) |
| Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall, Muybridge (Guy Delisle, Muybridge) | ||
| Catherine Khordoc, Baldwin, Styron and Me (Mélikah Abdelmoumen, Baldwin, Styron et moi) | ||
| Donald Winkler, May Our Joy Endure (Kev Lambert, Que notre joie demeure) |
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction | Katia Belkhodja, Les déterrées | Alexandra Boilard-Lefebvre, Une histoire silencieuse |
| Martina Chumova, Je mets mes rêves sur la table | ||
| Patrice Lessard, Rapines | ||
| Cristina Vanciu, Femmes silencieuses | ||
| Non-fiction | Ouanessa Younsi, Soigner, écrire | Alain Denault, Faire que! L’engagement politique à l’ère de l’inouï |
| Nathalie Plaat, Mourir de froid, c’est beau, c’est long, c’est délicieux | ||
| Maïka Sondarjee, Tu viens d’où? Réflexions sur le métissage et les frontières | ||
| Louise Warren, Recueillir | ||
| Poetry | Paul Chanel Malenfant, Au passage du fleuve | Angelina Guo, Comparution |
| Catherine Harton, Les sutures | ||
| Stéphane Martelly, Mourir est beau | ||
| Laurence Veilleux, Aller aux corps | ||
| Drama | Éric Noël, Ces regards amoureux de garçons altérés | Maxime Brillon, Awards |
| Rébecca Déraspe, Fanny | ||
| Olivier Kemeid, La vengeance et l’oubli | ||
| Danièle LeBlanc, Paysages | ||
| Children's literature | Laurie Léveillé, Coup bas | Laura Doyle Péan, Cheer |
| Marc-André Dufour-Labbé, Fatigué mort | ||
| Catherine Fouron, Vieille branche | ||
| Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier, Tête boule disco | ||
| Children's illustration | Stéphane Laporte and Jacques Goldstyn, Un cadeau de Noël en novembre | Jocelyn Boisvert and Enzo, Le livre aspirateur |
| Annick Lefebvre and Vincent Partel-Valette, En crise | ||
| Charlotte Parent, Murielle et le mystère | ||
| Catherine Trudeau and Qin Leng, Le tasse de Gilles | ||
| English to French translation | Sylvie Bérard and Suzanne Grenier, Les soeurs de la Muée (Larissa Lai, The Tiger Flu) | Marie Frankland, Rouge (Mona Awad, Rouge) |
| Annie Goulet, Créatures obscures du 21e siècle (Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century) | ||
| Catherine Leroux, Étude pour l’obéissance (Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience) | ||
| Geneviève Robichaud and Danielle LeBlanc, Nous, Jane (Aimee Wall, We, Jane) |
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